Category: Teaching

September 26, 2024

STEM, AI, and You

Reading Time: 5 minutes Where are you in your journey to bring the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into your STEM-related teaching? And how will AI impact your teaching...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/AI and Learning/AI and Teaching/Artificial Intelligence/Teaching

September 24, 2024

Beyond Assumptions: Leveraging SoTL Research and Quality Improvement Feedback for Evidence of Student Learning

Reading Time: 4 minutes Photo by fauxels Have you ever found yourself wondering if your students are truly understanding and learning what you’re teaching?   While assessments can be reliable...

Categories Teaching

September 3, 2024

Student Reference Requests

Reading Time: 8 minutes Have you ever been approached by a student requesting that you serve as a professional or academic reference for them?   If so, you may...

Categories Teaching

August 29, 2024

Giving Student Feedback Using an Inquiry Approach

Reading Time: 4 minutes Students rely on feedback – whether qualitative, quantitative, or both; from peers, from you, or both – to understand how they performed on an assessment...

Categories Assessing Learning/Giving Feedback/Student Focused Assessment

August 27, 2024

Introduction to Planning Courses 

Reading Time: 3 minutes The Teaching and Learning 5-part learning series on planning and developing courses, developed in collaboration with Curriculum Planning & Operations and the Online Learning Centre, will be offered again in Fall 2024.

Categories Lesson and Course Planning

August 20, 2024

Where is the Wonder?

Reading Time: 6 minutes Think back to your educational experience when you attended elementary and high school, especially around the questions you were given for your learning. Likely, these...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Teaching/Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

August 14, 2024

Heterogeneity – the Reality of Diversity in our Classrooms

Reading Time: 3 minutes By Dr. Nasreen Sultana, Teaching and Learning Classroom heterogeneity refers to how students differ in age, gender, cultural and social backgrounds, and learning environments and...

Categories Diverse Identities/Diversity/Teaching

August 14, 2024

Indigenizing Education – A Land Acknowledgement for ECE

Reading Time: < 1 minute Tricia Dumais, Professor of Early Childhood Education at Conestoga College, tells the story of a land acknowledgement in the form of a children’s book that she created together with friend Doe O’Brien-Teengs.

Categories Decolonizing and Indigenizing Education/Faculty Stories/Teaching

July 31, 2024

Why using Generative Artificial Intelligence models for grading high-stakes assessments is problematic

Reading Time: 5 minutes Generative artificial intelligence has undoubtedly proven to be a useful tool in education, especially in supporting teachers and students in the teaching and learning process...

Categories Teaching

July 29, 2024

Teachers as SoTL Researchers

Reading Time: 3 minutes Navigating Dual Roles to Put Student Learning First The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) involves a systematic inquiry into teaching and student learning in...

Categories Teaching